Linked by Adam S on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 19:59 UTC
Last week, IBM unveiled the first version of their OpenOffice.org offshoot, Lotus Symphony. Symphony is aimed at professional users in a corporate environment, but brings to OpenOffice.org many UI enhancements in an attractive, single tabbed interface. Symphony 1.0 runs on Windows and Linux; while the site used to suggest a Mac version was forthcoming, there is currently no reference to a Mac native version of Symphony. The Lotus Symphony website has been updated to reflect the recent release, however, downloads are very slow at the moment "due to high demand." 
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RE[5]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by Stappjarv on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 18:15
in reply to "RE[4]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder..."
Member since:2006-01-26
Well I'll be (...) !
A year ago or so, I was enormously annoyed when I was looking through some old school stuff, and couldn't access the star office-documents
And now they open without a hitch. Was the star office-support gone from 2.2 in ubuntu, perhaps?
I did not have the core fonts installed up until now, hopefully that will make things better at home. The problems when moving between 2.2 and 2.4 at the different (windows) labs at university must be due to something else though.
Thanks for your good reply!
RE[6]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by chemical_scum on Thu 5th Jun 2008 00:34
in reply to "RE[5]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder..."
Member since:2005-11-02
Well I'll be (...) !
A year ago or so, I was enormously annoyed when I was looking through some old school stuff, and couldn't access the star office-documents
And now they open without a hitch. Was the star office-support gone from 2.2 in ubuntu, perhaps?
A year ago or so, I was enormously annoyed when I was looking through some old school stuff, and couldn't access the star office-documents
And now they open without a hitch. Was the star office-support gone from 2.2 in ubuntu, perhaps?
I think you are on to something I opened my .sdw file on Windows at work. When I got home and tried to open it with OOo 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy the option had gone.
However using the OOo 3.0Beta that I had loaded on the same system (from a deb downloaded from the OOo website) it loaded an old .sdw file fine. It looks for some reason that the Ubuntu version of OOo does not support the old StarOffice formats while OOo stil does.
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As a little plus, Open Office also lacks support for the Star Office-formats that I used some eight or ten years ago. Word at least still is able to read Office 97-files.
You are wrong about the Star Office format support. I just searched my hard drive and found a 2001 writer document saved as a .sdw. It opened perfectly in OOo 2.4. IBM has dropped the support for the old StarOffice formats in Symphony but OOo keeps supporting them right back to StarOffice 1.0 formats.
With regard to the transfer of writer documents between Linux and Windows (and vice versa). Are you using the MS core fonts in the documents created using Linux (do you have them installed)? If you don't then you will have font conversion problems that could effect formating.